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Today’s Siena poll of a competitive New York House race focuses on the newly drawn Hudson Valley district of NY-18, where Republican freshman Rep. Nan Hayworth leads her Democratic challenger, Sean Patrick Maloney, 46-33 among likely voters. The survey found the certified Working Families Party candidate, Larry Weissmann, receiving 10 percent of the vote in… More »

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Siena College Research has another entry in its series of surveys on bellwether congressional races, this time focusing on the race between GOP incumbent Ann Marie Buerkle and former Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei. It’s looking like a reprise of their 2010 matchup, which ended up coming down to absentee ballots. Each candidate is currently pulling […] More »

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Siena is out today with two more polls of contested New York congressional races, this time looking at a pair of re-matches from the 2010 midterms. In NY-1 out on Long Island, Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop has an early 13 percentage point lead over his Republican opponent, businessman Randy Altschuler, despite a spate of bad… More »

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Seeing public corruption as a continuing problem, voters remain staunchly opposed to a legislative pay hike, according to a Quinnipiac poll released this morning. The survey found 79 percent of voters think corruption is a very or somewhat serious problem. This could become a problem for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has touted his tenure in […] More »

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Rep. Bill Owens leads his Republican challenger Matt Doheny by 13 points, a Siena Research Institute survey released this morning shows. It’s 49-36, with eight percent of voters undecided and six percent committed to Green Party candidate Donal Hassig. “By any measure, Congressman Owens enters the final two months of this electoral rematch in a […] More »

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Today’s Siena poll – the second survey of New York’s competitive House races to date in this election cycle – shows Democratic Rep. Bill Owens with a comfortable 13-point lead over his GOP opponent, Matt Doheny, is the re-drawn and GOP-dominated NY-21. Green Party candidate Donald Hassig has six percent of the vote, the poll… More »

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The balance sheet on Barack Obama is zero right now. The country is evenly divided about his performance as president. And he’s tied in the polls with Republican Mitt Romney.
Let’s take a look at the Democratic incumbent’s assets as he heads into his party’s national convention in Charlotte this week — and his liabilities. More »

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Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his VP running mate did not help his cause in true-blue New York, today’s Siena poll finds. Only 16 percent of poll respondents said the presumptive GOP nominee’s choice of the Wisconsin lawmaker as his No. 2 made them more likely to support Romney, while 21 percent… More »

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A majority of New York voters surveyed for this month’s poll by the Siena Research Institute said they want to see the 2011 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, implemented. The survey found voters supported Obamacare by a 59-36 margin. The Supreme Court affirmed most central pillars of the law, which requires people to purchase […] More »

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A Siena poll commissioned by The Buffalo News and WGRZ-TV found one of New York’s most competitive House races – the showdown between Democratic Rep. Kathy Hochul and former GOP Erie County Executive Chris Collins in the state’s most Republican leaning congressional district – is almost a tie. Collins leads Hochul by a mere two… More »

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Democrat congressional candidate Sean Maloney trails freshman Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth by three percentage points in the Hudson Valley’s new 18th Congressional District, according to a poll commissioned by a Democratic political action committee and a major labor union. Hayworth led Maloney 48 percent to 45 percent in the July 25 to 29 telephone poll [...] More »

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I detect something of a trend here… On the heels of the results of a poll conducted for an released by Rep. Chris Gibson’s campaign this morning that shows the freshman Republican leading his Democratic challenger comes another poll from another GOP congressional candidate that claims he’s far ahead of his Democratic target. This time,… More »

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A poll conducted for Rep. Chris Gibson shows the freshman Republican congressman with a commanding lead over his Democratic opponent, Julian Schreibman. The Gibson campaign did not release all of the Public Opinion Strategies poll results or its methodology, but did send reporters a summary memo written by the firm’s Patrick Lanne. According to Lanne,… More »

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A new poll finds 80 percent of New Yorkers oppose a pay increase for state lawmakers, who currently make $79,500 a year. The survey, by Quinnipiac University, found just 16 percent of voters surveyed support the still-amorphous proposal. The same voters say a raise would still stink if it were tied to a minimum wage […] More »

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It’s admittedly “mid-summer speculation,” but Quinnipiac University’s latest monthly poll shows just over a third of Empire State voters think Gov. Andrew Cuomo should run for president in 2016, and far more would pick Hillary Clinton as a contender for national office. Cuomo does maintain a stratospheric approval rating of 73-16. But of the 1,779 […] More »

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